The Ontology of the Enemy: Norbert Wiener and the Cybernetic Vision
The Ontology of the Enemy: Norbert Wiener and the Cybernetic Vision
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敌人的本体论：诺伯特·维纳和控制论愿景
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10.1086/448747
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发表时间：
1994
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影响因子：
1.7
通讯作者：
Peter Galison
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作者：
Peter Galison
1940年9月20日，数学家和物理学家诺伯特·维纳在《美国战争研究的沙皇》一书中写道：我……希望你们能找到一些活动的角落，在紧急情况下我可能会派上用场。英国受到了无情的空袭，纳粹的入侵似乎迫在眉睫。维纳在纪律地图上争先恐后地支持技术防御。他建议改进布什的计算设备，即所谓的差分分析仪，以便于更快地设计从飞机机翼到弹道炮弹的战争物资。更具体地说，他重申了之前的一项提议，即盟国将液化乙烯、丙烷或乙炔气体的充气容器放在高空中，以便吞没大片天空。
"I . . . hope you can find some corner of activity in which I may be of use during the emergency," the mathematician and physicist Norbert Wiener wrote the czar of American war research, Vannevar Bush, on 20 September 1940. Britain was under unrelenting aerial attack, and a Nazi invasion seemed imminent. Wiener scrambled across the disciplinary map to throw his weight behind a technological defense. He suggested procedures to improve Bush's computational device, the so-called differential analyzer, in ways that would facilitate faster design of war materiel from airplane wings to ballistic shells. More concretely, he reiterated a previous proposal that the Allies loft air-bursting containers of liquified ethylene, propane, or acetylene gases to engulf a wide volume of the sky in a pro-